Arcontia International, a Swedish producer of contactless smart card readers and terminals, has been selected by LECIP, Inc. for a smart card based fare collection solution, including cashless ticket vending machines and contactless smart card readers. LECIP and the City of Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus (BBB) inked a deal worth more than $7 million […]

DeviceFidelity Inc. announced the CredenSE product line of microSD devices, a commercial NFC product with on board active signal amplification chip, secure element and miniature antenna. CredenSE can work on handsets with embedded NFC and those without. CredenSE also works with the DeviceFidelity iCaisse to bring NFC enabled mobile wallet applications to all iPhone models. […]

Charismathics announced that NIST has re-certified the company’s CSSI PIV Middleware as FIPS 201 compliant. CSSI PIV ensures compliance with existing as well as future PIV cards and also all legacy Defense Department Common Access Cards and support for SIPRnet cards and tokens. charismathics enables interoperability and hardware independence as well as software support across […]

As the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) takes its first steps to expand train service into Silicon Valley, it is also bringing its regionally interoperable Clipper Card payment system to its new customers. Warm Springs Constructors, the consortium that is building the BART Warm Springs Track Extension Project, has awarded Cubic Transportation Systems a […]

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has selected NXP Semiconductors for its SmartMX2 microcontroller to increase the security and performance of its banking cards. The new cards will have dual interface capabilities that enable both contact and contactless payments. NXP’s SmartMX2 delivers enhanced user convenience and speed of transactions that allow banks to offer […]

The Himalayan Times reports that the government of Nepal is going to pilot a biometric national ID card. The program, which will involve 100,000 people, will give citizens smart cards with personal data, thumbprints and a unique ID number. The pilot project is conducted with assistance from the Asian Development Bank and with approval from […]

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance has certified the first two products to implement the CIPURS open security standard – a contactless security controller from Infineon Technologies and a CIPURSE smart card applet for NFC smart phones from INSIDE Secure. System integrators, transit systems operators and other transit ecosystem members can use these […]

Late last year a new acronym joined the alphabet soup that makes up the federal identity landscape when CIV, or Commercial Identity Verification, was announced. CIV is a relative–some say a sibling while others argue a distant cousin–to the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credential that is used by federal employees for physical and logical access […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has announced its SmartTrust Portigo mobile wallet – a solution for NFC services that integrates all the functions of an electronic wallet into a common platform. The Portigo mobile wallet features a framework that supports a number of services including debit and credit cards, ID cards, loyalty cards, public transport tickets […]

The state of Uttar Pradesh in India will be issuing smart card driving licenses with biometric features, reports India Today. The licenses will feature digital signatures, biometric thumb impressions and a picture of the license holder. License applicants must now apply for licenses in person in order to capture the biometric information. The government will […]